Aisha Shillingford, Terry Marshall
Intelligent Mischief is a Brooklyn-based creative studio unleashing Black imagination to shape the future, co-founded by Aisha Shillingford and Terry Marshall. Their purpose is to boost invention and imagination, re-align action logic, and experiment with new forms of culture & civil society to create atmospheres of change. They cultivate community and create multi-platform stories, experiences, and ephemera, and engage in collaborations at the intersection of social justice, art, design, and culture. They work with people across the African Diaspora to cultivate the creative potential of our peoples to create new realities. Their work builds on the Black Radical tradition and cultural movements such as the Black Arts Movement, Afro-surrealism, Afro Futurism, Visionary Fiction, Black Radical Imagination, Freedom Dreaming and more.